"This volume preserves the outcomes of a conference [on the 'globalization of pentecostalism'] held in San José, Costa Rica, in 1996 [at the Costa Rica Study Centre of Vanguard University]." p. vii, xiv

Includes bibliographical references and index

Changing paradigms : an introductory overview / Douglas Petersen -- The struggle for global witness : shifting paradigms in Pentecostal theology / Frank D. Macchia -- "Try to get people saved" : revisiting the paradigm of an urgent Pentecostal missiology / L. Grant McClung, Jr. -- Biblical studies in the Pentecostal tradition : yesterday, today, and tomorrow / Wonsuk Ma -- Yielding to the Spirit : the dynamics of a Pentecostal model of praxis / Jackie David Johns -- They crossed the Red Sea, didn't they? : critical history and Pentecostal beginnings / Everett A. Wilson -- Changing paradigms : a response / José Míguez Bonino -- Pentecostalism as a global culture : an introductory overview / Byron D. Klaus -- Latin American Pentecostalism / Edward L. Cleary -- Unity or division : a case study of the Apostolic Faith Mission of South Africa / Japie LaPoorta -- Globalization of Pentecostalism or globalism of individualism? : a European perspective / Jean-Daniel Plüss -- Pentecostal challenges in east and south-east Asia / Jungja Ma -- Contextual perspectives on Pentecostalism as a global culture : a south Asian view / Ivan M. Satyavrata -- "Everybody bids you welcome" : a multicultural approach to North American Pentecostalism / David D. Daniels -- Pentecostalism as a global culture : a response / Vinay Samuel -- Issues facing Pentecostalism in a postmodern world : an introductory overview / Murray W. Dempster -- Listening to the margins : re-historicizing Pentecostal experiences and identities / Ronald N. Bueno -- Pentecostals, globalization, and postmodern hermeneutics : implications for the politics of scriptural interpretation / Gerald T. Sheppard -- "Your daughters shall prophesy" : Pentecostal hermeneutics and the empowerment of women / Janet Everts Powers -- Pentecostals and ecumenism in a pluralistic world / Cecil M. Robeck, Jr. -- The "Toronto blessing" in postmodern society : manifestations, metaphor and myth / Margaret M. Poloma -- "Pentecostalism and global market culture" : a response to issues facing Pentecostalism in a postmodern world / Harvey Cox